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"Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like "maybe we should just be friends" or "how very perceptive" turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. Nothing should be able to do that. Especially not love. I hate love."
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graphic-novel
love-quotes
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Neil Gaiman |
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3fc3df8
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I would court you, with all the grace and courtesy that you deserve,
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damen
damianos-of-akielos
inspirational
inspirational-love-family-loss
inspirational-quote
love-quotes
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C.S. Pacat |
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610b9c9
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I love my parents' murderer; I suppose I could love anyone.
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jude
love
love-quotes
the-cruel-prince
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Holly Black |
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e558f1d
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"You said you didn't care what I thought. Or what I did. Or if I died, if I'm not mistaken." "I lied! And you know I lied, you stupid bastard!"
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love-quotes
lovers
lovers-quarrels
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Sarah J. Maas |
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ecd9633
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You can run from the truth. You can run and hide from the truth. You can deny and avoid the truth. But you cannot destroy the truth. Nor can you make the lie true. You must know that love will always uncover the truth.
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love-at-first-sight
love-hurts
love-quotes
love-story
lovely
lovequotes
lover
lovers
music
poet
poetry-love
rare-images-of-love
realistic-poetry
realistic-poetry-quotes
tags-cinderella
tags-delano-johnson
tags-fantasy
tags-love
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Delano Johnson |
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9108341
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I long for you; I who usually longs without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you.
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letters-to-milena
longing
love-quotes
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Franz Kafka |
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cabef72
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Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you'll find your treasure
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love-quotes
love-quotes-and-sayings
the-alchemist
trasure
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Paulo Coelho |
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2aeedce
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"Your hair is winter fire, January embers.
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ben-hanscom
fire
haiku
hair
it
love
love-quotes
stephen-king
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Stephen King |
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127d62e
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When in love, the sight of the beloved has a completeness which no words and no embrace can match: a completeness which only the act of making love can temporarily accommodate
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love-quotes
making-love
sight
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John Berger |
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ea7b04c
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In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life.
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estella
love
love-quotes
pip
romance
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Charles Dickens |
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03ea412
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I don't care about anything. But I care about you.
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isla-and-the-happily-ever-after
love
love-quotes
sweet
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Stephanie Perkins |
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59cf70b
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"when the words not enough to describe how much you love.... even you know she/he don't anything for you...... you cant fall a sleep exactly like before's" -kuntal"
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love-quotes
science
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Bob Marley |
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f950de7
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Love is only a recognition of our own guilt and imperfection, and a supplication for forgiveness to the perfect beloved. This is why we love those who are more beautiful than ourselves, why we fear them, and why we must be unhappy lovers.
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beloved
jack-kerouac
love
love-quotes
lovers
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Allen Ginsberg |
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0d1572e
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"How can you be a lover of love
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faith
god
hafez
hafiz
impossible
in-love
kamand
kamand-kojouri
kojouri
love
love-movement
love-poems
love-quotes
love-revolution
love-wins
lover
religion
rumi
spiritual
spirituality
sufi
sufism
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Kamand Kojouri |
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d8a6312
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"Being in love is...anxious," he said. "Wanting to please, worrying that she will see me as I really am. But wanting to be known. That is...you're naked, moaning in the dark, no dignity at all...I wanted her to see me and to love me even though she knew everything I am, and I knew her"
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inspiration
life
love
love-quotes
naked
truth
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Audrey Niffenegger |
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fff95df
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All relationships have ups and downs. Romantic fantasy often nurtures the belief that difficulties and down times are an indication of a lack of love rather than part of the process. In actuality, true love thrives of the difficulties. The foundation of such love is the assumption that we want to grow and expand, to become more fully ourselves. There is no change that does not bring with it a feeling of challenge and loss. When we experience true love it may feel as though our lives are in danger; we may feel threatened.
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disputes
fighting
growth
growth-process
love
love-quotes
relationships
true-love
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bell hooks |
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43c5e00
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"I put my fingers under Emily's chin, tilting her head up. "I love you." Emily's dark eyes widen and if this moment wasn't so dire, I'd laugh at her expression. swipe a finger across her smooth cheek. "I've never said that to anyone and I don't plan on it being the last time, either. I love you, Emily, and I'm telling you we'll work ths out." --
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love-quotes
lovers
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Katie McGarry |
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b288b96
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Erotic attraction often serves as the catalyst for an intimate connection between two people, but it is not a sign of love. Exciting, pleasurable sex can take place between two people who do not even know each other. Yet the vast majority of males in our society are convinced that their erotic longing indicates who they should, and can, love. Led by their penis, seduced by erotic desire, they often end up in relationships with partners with whom they share no common interests of values.
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erotica
erotica-romance
eroticism
love
love-quotes
men
penis
sex
sexual-attraction
sexuality
sexy
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bell hooks |
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770f88d
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Understanding knowledge as an essential element of love is vital because we are bombarded daily with messages that tell us love is about mystery, about that which cannot be known. We see movies in which people are represented as being in love who never talk with one another, who fall into bed without ever discussing their bodies, their sexual needs, their likes and dislikes. Indeed, the message is received from the mass media is that knowledge makes love less compelling; that it is ignorance that gives love its erotic and transgressive edge. These messages are brought to us by profiteering producers who have no clue about the art of loving, who substitute their mystified visions because they do not really know how to genuinely portray loving interaction.
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knowledge
love
love-at-first-sight
love-quotes
mass-media
pop-culture
romance
romantic
television
truth
tv
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bell hooks |
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fecdd1d
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Love will make you show your heart someday...
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love
love-quotes
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Louisa May Alcott |
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a3c0b3b
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All the romantic lore of our culture has told us when we find true love with a partner it will continue. Yet this partnership lasts only if both parties remain committed to being loving. Not everyone can bear the weight of true love. Wounded hearts turn away from love because they do not want to do the work of healing necessary to sustain and nurture love. Many men, especially, often turn away from true love and choose relationships in which they can be emotionally withholding when they feel like it but still receive love from someone else. Ultimately, they choose power over love. To know and keep true love we have to be willing to surrender the will to power.
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love-quotes
partnership
power
romantic
romantic-partner
true-love
vulnerability
wounded-heart
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bell hooks |
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f842eb9
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Getting in touch with the lovelessness within and letting that lovelessness speak its pain is one way to begin again on love's journey. In relationships, whether heterosexual or homosexual, the partner who is hurting often finds that their mate is unwilling to 'hear' the pain. Women often tell me that they feel emotionally beaten down when their partners refuse to listen or talk. When women communicate from a place of pain, it is often characterized as 'nagging.' Sometimes women hear repeatedly that their partners are 'sick of listening to this shit.' Both cases undermine self-esteem. Those of us who were wounded in childhood often were shamed and humiliated when we expressed hurt. It is emotionally devastating when the partners we have chosen will not listen. Usually, partners who are unable to respond compassionately when hearing us speak our pain, whether they understand it or not, are unable to listen because that expressed hurt triggers their own feelings of powerlessness and helplessness. Many men never want to feel helpless or vulnerable. They will, at times, choose to silence a partner with violence rather than witness emotional vulnerability. When a couple can identify this dynamic, they can work on the issue of caring, listening to each other's pain by engaging in short conversations at appropriate times (i.e., it's useless to try and speak your pain to someone who is bone weary, irritable, reoccupied, etc.). Setting a time when both individuals come together to engage in compassionate listening enhances communication and connection. When we are committed to doing the work of love we listen even when it hurts.
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communication
emotional-abuse
listening
listening-skills
listening-to-others
love
love-quotes
pain
relationships
vulnerability
vulnerability-quotes
vulnerable
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bell hooks |
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19cd684
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Not all were joyful tales; we needed to acknowledge that love was not just kisses, smiles, and fulfillment, but also sacrifice, compromise, and hard work.
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love
love-quotes
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Juliet Marillier |
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4a987c3
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"Love overcomes bitterness, overpowers sorrow, overwhelms anger, and overthrows hatred. Medicine heals the body, faith heals the heart,
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hate-quotes
inspirational-quotes
love-quotations
love-quotes
love-quotes-and-sayings
matshona-dhliwayo-quotes
sorrow-quotes
spirituality-quotes
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Matshona Dhliwayo |
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9e038cc
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She is a treasure greater than anything else I have won.
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love-quotes
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Paulo Coelho |
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6383bb4
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The dead don't die. They look on and help.
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love-quotes
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D.H. Lawrence |
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1aa9ec8
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Kitten?
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love-quotes
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Jennifer L. Armentrout |
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cf6d146
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Love is wanting to be with someone all the time.It is accepting the other person with all good qualities and bad and not wanting to change any of them. It is wanting to give affection and approval and comfort and everything that is oneself,demanding nothing in return. It is - love is very difficult, Julia. It is an ideal, rarely achieved in reality because we are all selfish and imperfect beings. It is a dream, a goal, something to be aimed for.
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dream
love-quotes
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Mary Balogh |
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3f3cb9e
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`shqh khh adm blh mykhnh y fqT dmy Hmq `shq myshn?
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love-quotes
relationships
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Orhan Pamuk |
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6ffe240
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The essence of true love is mutual recognition-two individuals seeing each other as they really are. We all know that the usual approach is to meet someone we like and put our best self forward, or even at times a false self, one we believe will be more appealing to the person we want to attract. When our real self appears in its entirety, when the good behavior becomes too much to maintain or the masks are taken away, disappointment comes. All too often individuals feel, after the fact-when feelings are hurt and hearts are broken-that it was a case of mistaken identity, that the loved one is a stranger. They saw what they wanted to see rather than what was really there.
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love
love-quotes
mask
true-love
true-self
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bell hooks |
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05ec5f3
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"You bless those you love, hurt those you hate, look up to those you admire, and despise those you detest. Love those who love you: they will respect you. Love those who hate you: men will praise you.
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enemy-quotes
hate-quotes
love-quotations
love-quote
love-quotes
love-quotes-and-sayings
matshona-dhliwayo-quotes
spiritual-quotes
spirituality-quotes
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Matshona Dhliwayo |
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8398a65
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"To hate is human, to love is divine. To destroy is human, to build is divine. To fall is human, to rise is divine. To break is human, to heal is divine. To take is human, to give is divine.
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african-philosopher-quotes
african-philosophy-quotes
enlightenment-quotes
guru-quotes
love-quotes
matshona-dhliwayo-quotes
philosophy-quotations
sage-quotes
solomonology-quotes
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Matshona Dhliwayo |
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35bb9d5
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"Nature needs your care. Animals need your attention. People need your light. The world needs your love. There are five kinds of love: veritable love for God, your parents, your life partner, your friends, and the most difficult of all, your neighbor.
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help-quotes
love-quotes
make-the-world-a-better-place
matshona-dhliwayo-quotes
wisdom-quotations
wisdom-quotes
wise-quotations
wise-quotes
world-peace-quotes
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Matshona Dhliwayo |
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45d2426
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"Wisdom is the mind's helper. Virtue is the heart's helper. Love is the soul's helper. Wisdom illuminates the mind.
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heart-quotes
love-quotes
matshona-dhliwayo-quotes
mind-quotes
soul-quotes
virtue-quotes
wisdom-quotations
wisdom-quotes
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Matshona Dhliwayo |
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9790e52
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When we understand love as the will to nurture our own and another's spiritual growth, it becomes clear that we cannot claim to love if we are hurtful and abusive. Love and abusive cannot coexist. Abuse and neglect are, by definition, the opposites of nurturance and care.
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bell-hooks
feminism
feminist
love
love-quotes
men
nurturance
nurturing
quotes-about-love
spiritual
spiritual-growth
women
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bell hooks |
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c11f5cd
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"Truth is one, so let us be of one mind. Light is one, so let us be of one heart.
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light-quotes
love-quotes
matshona-dhliwayo-quotes
team-quotes
teamwork-quotations
teamwork-quotes
truth-quotations
truth-quotes
universe-quotes
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Matshona Dhliwayo |
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1f3e1c1
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"When truth looks in the mirror, virtue looks out. When courage looks in the mirror, faith looks out.
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contentment-quotes
courage-quotes
faith-quotesuotes
love-quotes
matshona-dhliwayo-quotes
peace-quoteuote
truth-quotations
truth-quotes
virtue-quotes
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Matshona Dhliwayo |
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6e09245
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He would almost call this feeling for jeannette hate, if he were not so afraid it was love.
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love-quotes
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Karen Harper |
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5be3133
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Oh, darling, that's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person.
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love-quotes
romance
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Jodi Picoult |
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039d67d
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And I have to say, books haven't helped much with all this. Because whenever you read anything about love, whenever anyone tries to define it, there's always a state or an abstract noun, and I try to think of it like that. But actually, love is... Well, it's just you. And when you go, it's gone. Nothing abstract about it.
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love
love-quotes
relationships
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Nick Hornby |
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3ee1d8d
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The best sex and the most satisfying sex are not the same. I have had great sex with men who were intimate terrorists, men who seduce and attract by giving you just what you feel your heart needs then gradually or abruptly withholding it once they have gained your trust. And I have been deeply sexually fulfilled in bonds with loving partners who have had less skill and know-how. Because of sexist socialization, women tend to put sexual satisfaction in its appropriate perspective. We acknowledge its value without allowing it to become the absolute measure of intimate connection. Enlightened women want fulfilling erotic encounters as much as men, but we ultimately prefer erotic satisfaction within a context where there is loving, intimate connection. If men were socialized to desire love as much as they are taught to desire sex, we would see a cultural revolution. As it stands, most men tend to be more concerned about sexual performance and sexual satisfaction than whether they are capable of giving and receiving love.
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love-quotes
men
misogyny
patriarchy
sex
sexual-attraction
sexual-feelings
sexual-satisfaction
women
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bell hooks |
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b34bf06
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Describing our romantic longings in 'Life preserves,' therapist Harriet Lerner shares that most people want a partner 'who is mature and intelligent, loyal and trustworthy, loving and attentive, sensitive and open, kind and nurturant, competent and responsible.' No matter the intensity of this desire, she concludes: 'Few of us evaluate a prospective partner with the same objectivity and clarity that we might use to select a household appliance or a car.' To be capable of critically evaluating a partner we would need to be able to stand back and look critically at ourselves, at our needs, desires, and longings..... We fear that evaluating our needs and then carefully choosing partners will reveal that there is no one for us to love. Most of us prefer to have a partner who is lacking then no partner at all. What becomes apparent is that we may be more interested in finding a partner than in knowing love.
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finding-love
love
love-at-first-sight
love-quotes
pick-up-line
picky
romance
romantic-partner
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bell hooks |
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b97558f
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Love is very real and it's dangerous. People do crazy things in the name of love. Bad things. Love is powerful and shouldn't be played with.
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love
love-quotes
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Susan Mallery |
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bdc86bc
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"Fairy Tales give you more than just smile.
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fairy-tales-retold
fairytales
hope
love
love-quotes
paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
relationship-quotes
smile
true-love
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Ameya Agrawal |
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2de4787
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"If you love truth, you will love justice. If you love justice, you will love peace. If you love peace, you will love unity.
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inspirational-quotes
justice-quotations
justice-quotes
love-quotes
matshona-dhliwayo-quotes
peace-quotations
peace-quote
unity-quotes
world-peace-quotes
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Matshona Dhliwayo |
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d026c07
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"One joke is enough to put a smile on your face.
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heart-quotations
heart-quotes
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kiss-quotes
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love-quotes-and-sayings
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love-quotes-love
lovers-quotes
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smile-quotes
soul-quotes
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Matshona Dhliwayo |
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1175900
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Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, 'Love each other or perish
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inspirational
love-quotes
truth
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Mitch Albom |
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a895ae9
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Once you've done it with him, he won't abandon you. If he really loves you, if he's a man with a heart, he'll follow you wherever you go. If he doesn't, he isn't the man you want, is he?
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love
love-quotes
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Ha Jin |
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aad3c96
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Many of us suffer because we think that if people don't really love us, then we will have to live forever without love. But it's not true. The greatest sense of love, which is available for us at all times, is God's love.
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christian-living
christianity
god
god-s-love-for-us
inspirational-love
inspirational-quotes
love-quotes
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Stormie Omartian |
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f301012
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"Hate subtracts from your life. Virtue adds to your life. Love multiplies your life. Envy divides your life. When full of love, the heart is at its highest potential. When full of lust, the heart is at a mediocre potential. When full of greed, the heart is at its lowest potential.
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love-quotations
love-quotes
love-quotes-and-sayings
matshona-dhliwayo-quotes
wisdom-quotes
wise-quotations
wise-quotes
wise-sayings-quotes
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Matshona Dhliwayo |
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fd38e2e
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"You can see a person without using your eyes, hear a person without using your ears, carry a person without using your hands,
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love-quotes
spiritual-quotes
wisdom-quotes
wise-quotes
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Matshona Dhliwayo |
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9bdc3d3
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"You have beautiful ears if you listen to the plight of others, beautiful hands if you carry the burdens of others, beautiful eyes if you look out for others, beautiful feet if you visit others, a beautiful tongue if you encourage others, a beautiful mind if you enlighten others,
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kindness-quotes
love-quotes
wisdom-quotes
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Matshona Dhliwayo |
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6bb2175
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"A woman's elegance will charm you for days, her beauty will charm you for weeks,
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beauty-quotes
charm-quotes
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goodness-quotes
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kindness-quotes
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love-quotes
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love-quotes-and-sayings
love-quotes-for-everybody
love-quotes-love
lovers-quotes
righteousness-quotes
virtue-quotes
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Matshona Dhliwayo |
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f2d82ef
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And so, in silence, we walked the surface of a dying world, but in the breast of one of us at least had been born that which is ever oldest, yet ever new. I loved Dejah Thoris. The touch of my arm upon her naked shoulder had spoken to me in words I would not mistake, and I knew that I had loved her since the first moment my eyes had met hers that first time in the plaza of the dead city of Korad.
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dejah-thoris
edgar-rice-burroughs
falling-in-love
in-love
john-carter
love
love-quotes
romance
romantic
romantic-quotes
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Edgar Rice Burroughs |
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98f7481
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Every man wants love, if he can get past the fear of exposure.
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love
love-quotes
love-story
romance
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Barbara Delinsky |
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4968b6d
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I want to see you. I feel more and more at with you now actually than ever before, I feel you more, actually more clarity, more confidence, more trust.
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feeling-at-home
jack-kerouac
longing-for-love
longing-for-someone
love
love-quotes
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Allen Ginsberg |
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25916e2
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,,Ako s'lzite mogat da izplatiat nashite grekhove, bikh plakal, za da kupia oproshchenie za vsichki tvoi m'ki v b'deshchiia ti zhivot, ako mozhekh sega da izplacha vsichko vmesto teb, bikh plakal, dokato iztekat ochite mi.
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africa
death-of-a-loved-one
fatherhood
love
love-quotes
sean-courtney
български
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Wilbur Smith |
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2340489
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Love forces, at last, this humility: you cannot love if you cannot be loved, you cannot see if you cannot be seen.
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love-quotes
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James Baldwin |
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d0da62f
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I though, So this is how they send the angel. Stalled at the age when she loved you most.
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love-quotes
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Nicole Krauss |
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b6dcb31
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"Dispensing with the frivolity, he kissed her meaningfully. When at last he pulled away, her troubled expression alarmed him. "What?" "Be careful, Hammond." "No one will know I was here." She shook her head. "Not that." "Then what?" "You may have to put me on trial for my life. Please be careful that you don't make me fall in love with you first."
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hammond
love
love-quotes
quote
sandra-brown
the-alibi
trial
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Sandra Brown |
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d425fcf
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Few of us enter romantic relationships able to receive love. We fall into romantic attachments doomed to replay familiar family dramas. Usually we do not know this will happen precisely because we have grown up in a culture that has told us that no matter what we experience in our childhoods, no matter the pain, sorrow, alienation, emptiness, no matter the extent of our dehumanization, romantic love will be ours. We believe we will meet the girl of our dreams. We believe 'someday our prince will come.' They show up just as we imagined they would. We wanted the lover to appear but most of us were not clear about what we wanted to do with them-what the love was that we wanted to make and how we would make it. We were not ready to open our hearts fully.
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first-love
love
love-at-first-sight
love-quotes
love-transforms
one-day-my-prince-will-come
open-your-heart
someday-my-prince-will-come
vulnerability
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bell hooks |
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7ffb5ed
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She remembered love, though, and a feeling of warmth. It was like remembering light, or the glow that sometimes persists after a light has gone out.
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emma
jane-austen
love
love-quotes
mccall
metaphors
modern-retelling
smith
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Alexander McCall Smith |
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38ab57f
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"Regard those who respect you. Esteem those who honor you.
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art-of-living
cherish
children-quotes
conduct-quotes
esteem
guru-quotes
honor-quotes
life-lesson-quotes
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life-lessons-quotes
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life-quote
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living-well-quotes
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Matshona Dhliwayo |
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"Ignorance disconnects us. Envy separates us. Greed divides us. Goodness connects us.
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Matshona Dhliwayo |
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"If I was blind, I would still see you. If I was deaf, I would still hear you. If I was mute, I would still speak to you.
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Matshona Dhliwayo |
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"Love thinks. Love speaks. Love feels. Love lives. Love hopes. Love helps.
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Matshona Dhliwayo |
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"Love blesses one who receives it, rewards one who experiences it, but hate torments one who harbors it. For: love is warm, indifference is cold, and hatred is numbing.
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Matshona Dhliwayo |
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I learned that we may meet a true love and that our lives may be transformed by such an encounter even when it does not lead to sexual pleasure, committed bonding, or even sustained contact. The myth of true love-that fairy-tale vision of two souls who meet, join, and live happily ever thereafter-is the stuff of childhood fantasy. Yet many of us, female and male, carry these fantasies into adulthood and are unable to cope with the reality of what it means to either have an intense life-altering connection that will not lead to an ongoing relationship or to be in a relationship. True love does not always lead to happily ever after, and even when it does sustaining love still takes work.
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bell hooks |
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"A step towards love is a mile towards virtue. A step towards virtue is a mile towards wisdom. A step towards wisdom is a mile towards joy. Invest in wisdom; the returns are certain. Invest in love; the rewards are plenty.
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Matshona Dhliwayo |
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L'amore e una faccenda intima strana e piena di contraddizioni, visto che non di rado amiamo qualcuno solo perche amiamo noi stessi, per egoismo, avidita, desiderio fisico, brama di dominare l'oggetto d'amore e asservirlo; o al contrario, per desiderio di asservirci e essere dominati dal nostro amante, e in fondo l'amore assomiglia all'odio e gli e piu prossimo di quanto non si pensi normalmente.
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Amos Oz |
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And like that, the decades disappeared and the memory of that night came to life again. The way John had known it would. He didn't fight it, didn't work to stay in the here and now. If he was going to go back, then he wanted to relive it. All of it.
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family
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love
love-quotes
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Karen Kingsbury |
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Most men and women born in the fifties or earlier were socialized to believe that marriages and/or committed romantic bonds of any kind should take precedence over all other relationships. Had I been evaluating my relationships from a standpoint that emphasized growth rather than duty and obligation, I would have understood that abuse irreparably undermines bonds. All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.... Women who would no more tolerate a friendship in which they were emotionally and physically abused stay in romantic relationships where these violations occur regularly. Had they brought to these bonds the same standards they bring to friendship they would not accept victimization.
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respect
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bell hooks |
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Lo amaba, ?Sabes?, pero tengo una teoria sobre el amor. Creo que, por buenos que sean, hay amores que no estan destinados a durar para siempre
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love-quotes
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Cecelia Ahern |
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"I love you, Karla," I said when we were alone again. "I loved you the first second I saw you. I think I've loved you for as long as there's been love in the world. I love your voice. I love your face. I love your hands. I love everything you do, and I love the way you do everything. It feels like magic when you touch me. I love the way your mind works, and the things you say. And even though it's all true, all that, I don't really understand it, and I can't explain it - to you or to myself. I just love you. I just love you with all my heart. You do what God should do: you give me a reason to live. You give me a reason to love the world."
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love-quotes
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Gregory David Roberts |
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It ended sadly. The kind of ending where you wait together, holding hands and weeping, while off in another room, love slowly dies.
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endings
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Abigail Thomas |
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He said, I've been coming for you on a hard road. I'm never letting you go. Never.
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love-quotes
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Charles Frazier |
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In the Mars-and-Venus-gendered universe, men want power and women want emotional attachment and connection. On this planet nobody really has the opportunity to know love since it is power and not love that is the order of the day. The privilege of power is at the heart of patriarchal thinking. Girls and boys, men and women who have been taught this way almost always believe love is not important, or if it is, it is never as important as being powerful, dominant, in control, on top-being right. Women who give seemingly selfless adoration and care to the men in their lives appear to be obsessed with 'love,' but in actuality their actions are often a covert way to hold power. Like their male counterparts, they enter relationships speaking the words of love even as their actions indicate that maintaining power and control is their primary agenda.
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bell hooks |
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I will love you with everything I am and all that I have...
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love-quotes
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J.R. Ward |
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The greatest sense of love, which is available for us at all times, is God's love.
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Stormie Omartian |
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I already thought on that first evening of our meeting how glorious it would be to spend one's whole life regarded by those beautiful, candid eyes, and how it would then be impossible ever to think or do ill.
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love
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Hermann Hesse |
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Her beauty was not a sharp, cold commodity. She smelled musty, womanly, like a bundle of your favourite clothes... She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not (as with most of the girls Archie had run with in the past) like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it or when to just put it down. (~of Clara Bowden)
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love-quotes
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Zadie Smith |
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io, mio caro, non credo nell'amore universale. L'amore esiste in dosi modiche. Si possono amare forse cinque fra uomini e donne, dieci magari, talvolta financo quindici. E anche questo solo assai di rado. Ma se uno arriva e mi dice che ama tutto il Terzo mondo, o ama l'America Latina, o ama il sesso femminile, quello non e amore ma retorica. Pura demagogia. Slogan. Non siamo nati per amare piu di una manciata di persone.
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Amos Oz |
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Of all the things I wish for her, above all, I want her to know and love the sea.
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Laurie Nadel |
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My love, I'm here. I'll wait my whole life through until you're done, there in the cove at Kamouraska. Until you wash your blood-soaked hands and make your way back to me
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Anne Hébert |
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"I need you." He licked her bruised lip to soothe it. "I can't think straight without you. My world is all turned around, and I go through it in pain, wanting to hurt someone."
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love-quotes
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Elizabeth Hoyt |
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Understand something people, we will be hated by many in the name of Christ, ridiculed, mocked, stoned, slaughtered. We will be fined, jailed and killed for our love for Christ. You are supposed to see better with your eyes today, how close this is happening, just prepare your heart and soul to be braver than Peter and not deny Christ in the moment your life might be in jeopardy for Him and what you believe. Apostle Pauls says to live is Christ to die is gain.
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Patience Johnson |
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"She came very close, and looking into my eyes, she said, "My Jenny," and then she bent her head and kissed me--here, on the left-hand corner of my mouth. And nobody knows better than I that I couldn't have felt anything, because Tamsin was a ghost--but nobody but me knows what I felt. And I'll always know."
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love
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Peter S. Beagle |
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"At the door Queen Phillipa turned slowly back. "Love," she repeated, her face suddenly gone girlishly soft before it turned to pale marble again. "Love fades, poor Joan, and then there is only duty and remembrance."
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love-quotes
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Karen Harper |
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He saw with sorrow that hers was a life he could step right into and keep working at hard from tonight until death. If he allowed himself to ponder it for a minute, he saw all the world hanging over the girl like the deadfall to a trap, ready to drop and crush.
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Charles Frazier |
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Emotion,' she told him, 'is not a reliable guide for our words and actions.' 'There you are wrong,' he said. 'Deep, true emotion is our surest guide. We make our greatest mistake when we allow our heads to rules ours hearts.' 'Emotion is our human weakness.,' she said, 'reason our strength.' 'And love,' he said, 'is our destiny.
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Mary Balogh |
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She looked not like a mother in her thirties, but like the girl he had fallen in love with, and he loved her still. She would always be that girl to him, no matter what happened. That was love, after all, the ability to see one's youthful beloved in the aging stranger with her face. He would always love her, he thought. He was made to love her.
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Melissa de la Cruz |
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Oh, Scarlett, you are so young you wring my heart.
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Margaret Mitchell |
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Ona mogla dovesti svoimi vykhodkami do beshenstva, no v etom i byla eio svoeobraznaia prelest'.
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love-quotes
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Margaret Mitchell |
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Soul-to-soul contact sweeps through, like a tsunami, leaving in its wake just this: unconditional surrender and overwhelming gentleness.
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wayne-dyer
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Laurie Nadel |
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His ruby red rimmed moist eyes were two glasses of cranberry. He wore a cashmere sweater the color of Earl Grey tea...
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Brandi L. Bates |
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Maybe human beings are programmed ... to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it bad, Tally. Besides, we had a whole city of pretties to choose from, and we chose each other.
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love-quotes
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Scott Westerfeld |
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A man another woman can steal from you ain't your man no way
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romance
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Alice Randall |
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If you want to get close to somebody, you have to tell him or her something intimate about yourself. They'll tell you something intimate in return, and if you keep this going, maybe you'll end up in love.
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Douglas Coupland |
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Desi has loved me ever since the lie, I know he pictures making love to me, how gentle and reassuring he would be as he plunged into me, stroking my hair. I know he pictures me crying softly as I give myself to him.
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Gillian Flynn |
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"Mr. Bhaer saw the drops on her cheeks, ... The sight seemed to touch him very much, for suddenly stooping down, he asked in a tone that meant a great deal, "Heart's dearest, why do you cry?" Now, if Jo had not been new to this sort of thing she would have said she wasn't crying, had a cold in her head, or told any other feminine fib proper to the occasion. Instead of which, that undignified creature answered, with an irrepressible sob, "Because you are going away." "Ach, mein Gott, that is so good!" cried Mr. Bhaer, managing to clasp his hands in spite of the umbrella and the bundles,
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Louisa May Alcott |
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I couldn't make myself be cautious around her. A little voice in my head kept trying to tell me that every word she said could be disinformation and that she might be playing me for a fool. But I didn't believe it. I trusted her, even though I had every reason not to.
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love
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Ernest Cline |
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Her life would have been easier if she hadn't loved him so much, but she couldn't help loving him. Just to look at him was to love him.
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love
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Jonathan Franzen |
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Si, con todo, se lo que es el amor, lo se por ti.
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love
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Hermann Hesse |
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For a long while she only looked at him ... as if she didn't want to interrupt the beautiful moment with words.
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inspirational
love
love-quotes
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Karen Kingsbury |
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Oh, I hate him,' she said, and I noticed a flush of colour come into her cheeks and the manner in which the fingers of her left hand dug into her palm, as if she wanted something to take away the pain. 'I absolutely detest him. Afterwards, I didn't feel very much at all for a week or two. I suppose I was in shock. But then the fury rose and it hasn't subsided since. Sometimes I find it difficult to control. I think it was around the time that everyone stopped asking me whether I was all right, when lives went back to how they had been before. Had he been in Dublin I might well have gone over there, broken down his door and stabbed him as he slept. Fortunately for him, he was in Madagascar with his lepers.' (p. 268)
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John Boyne |
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"What is beautiful is seized," my mother said a final time, speaking of my father, whom she said had been destroyed by too many women, a heart picked over, scratched at, taken, lost. "It came to me in bulky bandages, seeming much larger, much more than it really was."
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love
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Lorrie Moore |